🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Fort Hill
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hilltop)
Hopewell hilltop enclosure (100 BCE–400 CE) on Baker Fork gorge — 2.4-km wall with 33 gates.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Mizuko Shell Midden
Jomon 6000–1800 BCE (Early to Final) stratified · Jomon (Kanto)
132 m Kanto Jomon shell midden — 5× stratified with 35 pit houses on Musashino (Mizuko, 6000–1800 BCE).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell al-Hiba — Lagash Mound
Ubaid through Early Dynastic to Akkadian (5000–2300 BCE) · Sumerian (Lagash / Girsu)
Tell al-Hiba — Lagash Mound in Dhi Qar Governorate, Al-Hiba (ancient Lagash), Iraq is a Ubaid through Early Dynastic to Akkadian (5000–2300 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Sumerian (Lagash /…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Zhetytobe South Kurgan Cluster (Seven Hills South Ridge)
Early Saka to Wusun Transition · Saka–Wusun
Zhetytobe south: 6 adobe-ring Saka kurgans 3 km south of Seven Hills core, Turkestan Ridge.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar Dhulkot Mound
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE · Ahar-Banas Ahar ware — type-site defining culture
Ahar Dhulkot Mound — eponymous Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic type-site (3000–1500 BCE) on Ahar River at Udaipur's eastern edge, excavated 1961–62 by H.D. Sankalia (Deccan College) and R.C. Agrawal.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat — Elam
Elamite, Middle Elamite period (1250–640 BCE) · Elamite (Middle Elamite)
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat — Elam in Khuzestan Province, Chogha Zanbil (ancient Dur-Untash), Iran is a Elamite, Middle Elamite period (1250–640 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Elamite (Middle…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Huallamarca Pyramid — San Isidro
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon, c.200 BCE–600 CE (Lima / Pinazo) · Andean (Lima / Pinazo)
Huaca Huallamarca (originally Pancho Fierro) in San Isidro, Lima: truncated adobe pyramid 85×70 m base, 20 m high, with interior ramps and courts.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca La Florida (Rímac Valley Temple U)
Initial Period (1800–800 BCE) · Pre-Cupisnique / Rímac Initial Period (Manchay-related)
Early U-shaped pyramid Huaca La Florida (1700–1000 BCE) Rímac Valley: 17 m central pyramid with 300×200 m U arms enclosing 140×80 m plaza — Pre-Inca Lima's earliest mega-temple.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pollock Works Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell (200 BCE–300 CE) · Hopewell
Hopewell enclosure pair on Scioto River terrace 9 km southwest of Chillicothe: large sub-square 160×140 m (3 ha) with 1.2 m embankment and interior ditch, conjoined at corner to 80 m diameter circle…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi
New Kingdom, 18th–19th Dynasty, ~1345 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amarna and Ramesside)
Akhenaten fortified temple-town on Nile west bank (c.1345 BCE), 200×100 m fortress with Aten temple.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Takasago Burial Site
Late to Final Jomon 1800–400 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (southwestern Hokkaido)
Late–Final Jomon collective cemetery (c.1800–400 BCE) adjoining Irie Site at Lake Toya, Toyako, Hokkaido — paired with Irie as single property Irie–Takasago (UNESCO 1632 dual).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Arabilah Kite Cluster
PPN to Late Neolithic · PPNB / Yarmoukian
32 PPNB–Late Neolithic limestone kites (8000–4500 BCE) on Wadi Arabilah scarp.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Wadi Jirdan Ancient Dam – Hadramawt
Hadhrami Old South Arabian · Hadhramawt kingdom
220-m Hadhrami diversion dam (700 BCE–400 CE) on Wadi Jirdan tributary — Hadramawt palm irrigation.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Djémila (Cuicul)
Roman (Trajanic to Byzantine; peak Severan 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber / Christian
Mountain Roman ridge town at 900 m with Arch of Caracalla, Severan baths and finest polychrome mosaics.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Imlidih Khurd
Pre-Narhan Neolithic-Chalcolithic 3500–1400 BCE → Overlapped by Narhan · Sarayupar Pre-Narhan (Vindhyan-derived)
Pre-Narhan early farming settlement (c.3500–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Gorakhpur, immediately preceding Narhan — excavated 1992–96 by Purushottam Singh and Rakesh Tewari, Imlidih Khurd…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Shushtar Band-e Ahmadi Weir (Shushtar Ahmadi Bridge-Dam)
Safavid with Sasanian spolia · Safavid Khuzestan
Band-e Ahmadi: 180-m Safavid 1680 bridge-dam 4 km south of Shushtar UNESCO, 12 arches.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Towosahgy State Historic Site
Late Mississippian (Medley–Dorena phases) · Mississippian (Bootheel)
Fortified Late Mississippian center (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and bastioned palisade on Bootheel terrace.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Rey (Cancún) Maya Port Town
Late Postclassic East Coast (1200–1520 CE, occupied to contact) · Maya (East Coast – Ecab / Cuchbalam)
Postclassic coastal town (1200–1520 CE) directly in Cancún Hotel Zone at km 18 on barrier island between Nichupté Lagoon and Caribbean: ~40 platforms, colonnaded halls and Pyramid Structure 2 (9 m…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Ixcun
Preclassic–Classic · Maya (Ixcun stela cult)
Dolores valley stela city (600 BCE–900 CE) near Guatemalan-Belize border with 8 photogenic carved stela altars including Stela 1 3.2 m tall — tallest Petén north stela with 9.16.0....
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Olba and Diocaesarea (Uzuncaburç)
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.300 BCE–600 CE) · Seleucid priest-kings → Isaurian → Roman Cilician
Priest-kingdom Olba with colossal Zeus temple (five columns 11 m) and Diocaesarea colonnaded sacred way.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chetro Ketl (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo II-III; Chacoan florescence then McElmo Mesa Verde · Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Homools? Pueblo I-III) → McElmo Mesa Verde
Chaco’s second city (400 rooms, D-shaped, 1010–1110 CE) with colonnade and great kiva — McElmo-renovated great house, 3 storeys high on north Chaco mesa.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Go Thap (Óc Eo–Funan)
Óc Eo 100 BCE–300 CE → Funan 200–600 CE → Chenla 600–800 CE → Khmer influence 800–1200 · Óc Eo–Funan (pre–Angkorian Mekong hydraulic with Indianization)
Mekong Delta Óc Eo–Funan secondary city (100 BCE–600 CE) at Go Thap Tháp Mười — 400 ha with Vishnu Garuda and 20 km canal to Oc Eo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca La Florida — Rímac Valley U-Temple
Initial Period, c.1800-1000 BCE (Preceramic U-temple) · Andean (Initial Period, Rímac–Chillón tradition)
Huaca La Florida in Collique hills north Lima: U-shaped pyramidal temple 350 m long, 40 m deep platform, 15 m high, with central court and lateral wings forming U open to east.